{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1957/section-84",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1957/section-84.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/5-6/56",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1957",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1957",
  "path": "section/84",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "84",
  "heading": "Right of landlord to obtain possession of overcrowded house",
  "text": "Where a dwelling-house is overcrowded in such circumstances as to render the occupier thereof guilty of an offence, nothing in the Rent Acts shall prevent the landlord from obtaining possession of the house.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/5-6/56/section/84",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:13:34.612316+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}